2 SUMMARY A review of different vision systems to recognize fruits for automated harvesting is presented. This survey of recent works in this field should be useful to researchers in this interesting area. Current research proves the feasibility of practical implementations of these computer vision systems for the analysis of agricultural scenes to locate natural objects under difficult conditi...

Road detection is still full of challenge for a small ground mobile robot with limited load capacity and computing resources which works in complex outdoor environment. This paper proposes a road detection method based on fuzzy support vector machine with on-line updating and retraining strategy. The algorithm extracts multi feature in image and trains a fuzzy support vector machine road classi...

Nowadays a major research issue of mobile robots is to develop a robust 3D environment sensing for navigation and task execution. To achieve this, a variety of techniques have been developed for the determination of the 3D scene geometric information such as stereo vision, laser structured light, laser range finder and so on. But these methods have many limitations. To overcome these limitation...

In structured indoor environment, the structural information gathered from sensors can be divided into three different levels whose features increase gradually: walls, corners and passages. Besides detecting walls and corners, the paper focuses on narrow passage detecting and crossing. The sensor employed in the robot is a laser range finder. By detecting the Complete Points in the laser map, t...

Laser range finder and omnidirectional cameras are becoming a promising combination of sensors to extract rich environmental information. This information includes textured plane extraction, vanishing points, catadioptric projection of vertical and horizontal lines, or invariant image features. However, many indoor scenes do not have enough texture information to describe the environment. In th...

Abstract -It is important to assess street-parking vehicles causing traffic problems in urban areas, however, it is performed manually and at high cost. It is a top priority for reducing cost, to develop a detection system of those vehicles. We propose a detection method using a laser-range finder and a line-scan camera. In the detection method, two kinds of cluster analysis are applied to rang...

We present an emerging indoor assisted navigation system for the visually impaired. The core of the system is a mobile robotic base with a sensor suite mounted on it. The sensor suite consists of an RFID reader and a laser range finder. Small passive RFID sensors are manually inserted in the environment. We describe how the system was deployed in two indoor environments and evaluated by visuall...

This paper describes the application of machine vision technology to prevention of collision accidents with heavy equipment such as hydraulic excavators and cranes. The images of the back side of heavy equipment with cameras which can take a picture with 180 degree shooting angle were captured and the worker was detected by developed color image processing algorism. A laser range finder and an ...